20 Va. App. 223 - Long v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 48 Va. App. 58 - Luginbyhl v. Commonwealth (2006), 28 Va. App. 288 - Hackney v. Commonwealth (1998)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Lewis v. Commonwealth · Essex v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 118 - Godwin v. Commonwealth · King v. Commonwealth · 16 Va. App. 672 - Woodward v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Long was charged with possession of heroin, possession of a firearm while in possession of heroin, and possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. Again, the circumstances of his trial on the first two charges were such that his prior felony conviction had no relevance or probative value. Holding that justice required severance of the third charge, we said: Evidence of Long’s prior felony conviction would not have been admissible in a trial on the possession of heroin and firearm/heroin possession charges, unless Long put his character or credibility in issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When the jury hears that a defendant has been convicted of a felony, a fact not probative of an element of the offense being tried, the evidence has a tendency to prejudice the defendant in the minds of the jurors. The admission of a felony conviction is suggestive of the defendant’s criminal propensity and tends to adversely affect hiá presumption of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.